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At Snowflake, Khoury co-ops take on independent cloud computing projects
Author: Juliana GeorgeDate: 03.31.25 Last fall, five Khoury students got the unusual opportunity to co-op at Snowflake, a cloud-based data storage company on the cutting edge of AI and machine […]
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Renaissance woman: Shannen Espinosa blends quantum computing, vaccine research, and digital diplomacy
Author: Matty WassermanDate: 12.13.24 To get a glimpse behind the curtain of Shannen Espinosa’s varied success in 2024, look no further than a particular week this past March. On Thursday […]
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General Bank Info SecurityBetter ransomware detection: Follow the shouting
- August 19, 2016
At the 25th Usenix Security Symposium in Austin, Texas, this week, a team of researchers from Northeastern University in Boston presented a new method to detect ransomware, called Unveil, and they report that it's proved highly effective in testing. -
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Technavio releases report on top three emerging trends to impact the global connected health market
- August 19, 2016
“The current healthcare system faces a shortage of resources. The supply of experienced medical professionals has been insufficient to meet the rapidly growing demand for medical services. The shortage of nurses is one of the major reasons for a drop in the quality of medical services. Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, US has developed the concept of a virtual nurse to overcome this,” according to Amber. -
Analysis of Named Entity Recognition & Entity Linking in Historical Text – Kunal Asarsa – 8.12.16
- August 18, 2016
Master’ Thesis Defense Abstract Named Entity Recognition is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique that is used to identify names of people, places, organizations, and more from a given piece […] -
Introduction to side-channel cryptanalysis (and some recent results) – Francois-Xavier Standaert – 8.11.16
- August 18, 2016
Abstract Side-channel cryptanalysis is a new research area in applied cryptography that has gained more and more interest since the mid-nineties. It considers adversaries trying to take advantage of the […] -
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The cat-and-mouse game of blocking digital ads
- August 15, 2016
Two Northeastern faculty members—including assistant professor Christo Wilson—explain how new strategies and technologies are changing the digital landscape for users, content providers, and advertisers. -
ChronicleZika moves quickly, and scientists fear that journals aren’t keeping pace
- August 10, 2016
With the Zika virus spreading north into the United States, network scientist Alessandro Vespignani, Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern, pulled together some important information he wanted to share. -
General News at NortheasternBiological detectives use Big Data to track disease progression
- August 8, 2016
Just as investigators use evidence to reconstruct crime scenes, Northeastern data scientist Olga Vitek hunts down and analyzes molecular changes that drive diseases to reconstruct their biological “crime scenes.” The evidence she compiles in her massive datasets leads to earlier diagnoses and more effective treatments. -
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Android apps can infer your location through sensors – no permissions needed
- August 5, 2016
Android users beware: You might have apps tapping into your whereabouts without your knowledge. Recent research from Northeastern has shown Android apps requiring zero permissions can actually access certain sensors in your phone that enables them to infer your location, past and present.
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